· Private foundation
Silver Star Brands Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OSHKOSH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,550 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC | $2,000 |
| OSHKOSH CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NAMI OSHKOSH INC | $500 |
| FVTC FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| DOWNTOWN OSHKOSH INC | $350 |
| OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +54%
- FVFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
DAY BY DAY SHELTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NW GREAT LAKESone grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To provide leadership and to serve and represent our members so their businesses and our communities will prosper.
To support the mission and activities of the oshkosh area community foundation corporation.
To provide leadership, direction, coordination, and services to advance economic development in the greater oshkosh area.
Soccer club that develops youth soccer players ages 6 through high school via training, league play, and tournaments.
Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Oakwood is called to serve a thriving community where seniors live with dignity, connection, and purpose.
The purpose of the oshkosh kids foundation, under the guidance of the social workers and community service partners, is to give immediate support to homeless and struggling kids and families in the oshkosh area. the organization also…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAY BY DAY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Oshkosh Community YMCA ↗
- Who funds PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OSHKOSHINC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Nami Oshkosh Inc ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Oshkosh Parks Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Jek Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silver Star Brands Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silver Star Brands Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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